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Was just upgraded recently to InDesign 2026. How do I get rid of the new start page?Because of this page I cannot make changes as you could previously by setting preferences before you open a new file. Also it does not even show letter paper as an option. I want to get rid of this annoying feature.

Hi, I wrote a function that deletes empty table rows, but for some reason it works very slowly. When 180 rows have to be deleted, it takes 21 seconds to do so. Considering I have two such tables and many data merged documents, it rather adds up. I was wondering if someone knows why it is this slow. We thought that perhaps we could make it faster by deleting a range of rows at once rather than deleting rows one by one, but I don't know how to delete multiple rows at once. Here is the code: function delRows(doc){ // If the tables' rows' contents are 0 in length (i.e. empty), delete the rows var myRowsApp1 = doc.textFrames.itemByName("Appendix1").tables[0].rows.everyItem().getElements(); for(var i = myRowsApp1.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) { var rowContent = myRowsApp1[i].contents; rowContent.shift(); if(rowContent.toString().replace(/,/g,"").replace(/\uFEFF/g,"").length != 0){ myRowsApp1[i].

bonjour j'utilise Indesing sous Windows. j'ai essayé plusieurs combinasion de réglage écran, mais j'obtiens un rendu à l'écran de très mauvaise qualité. j'ai essayé sur des écrans différents et l'affichage reste de très mauvaise qualité. La seule solution est d'utiliser 'affichage standart" au lieu de "affichage de qualité supérieure" (qui fonctionnait très bien il y a encore qq semaines). Je rencontre le problème quelque soit le poids du fichier Indesign. J'ajoute une copie d'écran pour illustrer ce soucis.Je travaille sous DELL Intel COREi7

Ich möchte nicht die festgelegte Minion, wie im Bild, als Ersatzschrift, sondern Messina. Wo kann ich das in den Einstellungen einmalig festlegen? Danke euch. 

Hello,  I am working on some accessible PDFs, and have already implemented Paragraph styles and a Reading order. However, when I export the PDF to Acrobat and test out the Screen Reader I find that it reads the document much to quickly, and in most instances cause it all too run on together.  I've tried searching with no luck. Can anyone tell me how to add a delay between my components (H1, H2, P, etc), so that the screen reader reads the document at a normal pace, and doesn't cause it all to run on together and become incoherent?  Thanks! 

When I went to an ADOBE bootcamp a decade ago the instructor said Illistrator tends to worked better then photoshop when dealing with graphics inside inDesign, so I primarly do everthing in illistrator. I just recently started to save things to the cloud and now I find I am running into an issue. Why when I use a InDesign file saved to the cloud and I try to import graphics also on the cloud it doesn't see any of my illustrator files at all.? It sees only InDesign, Photoshop, and Firefly files, it dosn't matter if it is in the project folder or just in my files. I only have this issue when it is a adobe cloud saved file. I have 32 files but it sees none, I then have to save to my computer to import them into my indesign file into a library.

HiI lost my Find/Change shortcut and option in indesign.I can not Find and Change text very annoying.Anybody knows what is going on? Thank you Bas

I’m having trouble getting OpenType font features to appear in Adobe InDesign. Even though I'm using an OpenType font, options like stylistic sets, ligatures, and alternate characters seem to be missing or grayed out in the Character panel. I’ve checked my text settings, but nothing seems to fix it. Is there something else I need to enable, or could this be a font-specific issue?   

I have a very large book and it has a lot of styles in it. They are labelled and grouped and organised as much as possible but it's something I'm working on over a very long period and sometimes the client takes a 6 month break and when I come back it's a bit much to remember where everything is. A search bar in the panel would be SO useful. I have the most used ones already set up with shortcuts but the less used ones, a search bar to find them in the list and click to apply would be so helpful, as opposed to having to open and close all the groups and scroll up and down the list looking. I can't be the only person that would find this useful?

I spent hours working on an InDesign file. Everything was smooth, the project was completed, and the PDF exported without issues. The client requested a small text change, so I reopened the file. InDesign froze, crashed, and the file was corrupted beyond recovery.I restarted InDesign and opened a backup. Same story: the app got stuck again (this time with an annoying “projects” popup), froze, and after a forced close, that backup file was destroyed as well.I have now lost five hours of work.This is the typical Adobe upgrade experience when the new yearly versions roll out on Windows. Half baked, unstable, and dangerous. And now my files are gone. Dev team, please take note.Everyone else, please no suggestions about resetting preferences. We go through this every year. I’m downgrading to the previous version and waiting until Adobe ships something that doesn’t destroy user data.

Hey, since the recent update, I'm getting a lot of complaints from my writers that they can no longer proof from mobile, using the Share For Review links I send them. They can pinch to zoom, but they are unable to scroll around the page.On iPhone the situation is even worse. Tapping the page icon at the bottom of the screen brings up a navigation system, however this frequently fails to update the page viewer. Tapping on the desired page in the navigation bar, will frequently see the selected page revert to the previous one when the user taps on the updated page in the viewer space.Having tested it all myself on both Android and iPhone, I can confirm that the system is very broken from what it once was. I hope this is on your radar to fix as soon as possible. Thanks.

Is there an setup.exe file available to download InDesign 2024 v19.5.4 ?   <Title renamed by MOD>

Can you upgrade from earlier version of CS4 to CS6 without having to pay full price?  

Dear Adobe Support Team,We are experiencing a critical and widespread issue affecting multiple users in our organization when working with Adobe InDesign and Adobe Illustrator files stored on our internal network server.1. Issue SummaryAt approximately 08:00 AM (GMT+7) on November 18, 2025, our users were unable to work with InDesign and Illustrator files located on our internal server.Symptoms observed:Files cannot be opened from the server, with error messages indicating that the file cannot be initialized or opened due to server permission issues. (Errror message: you may not have permission or the document may be open already)In some cases, files can be opened, but:Users cannot perform any editing actions.The application becomes unresponsive or certain functions are disabled.These symptoms have occurred across multiple workstations.2. Troubleshooting Attempts (Unsuccessful)We attempted the following actions, but the issue persisted:Copying files from the server to the local De

I'm wanting to show one word in my autocloseAlert message (https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/autoclosealert-customconfirm-and-customprompt-messages/td-p/15255213) in bold for emphasis (specifically in FrameMaker, but it's more a ScriptUI question). Standard ideas don't work. For example:AutocloseAlert("This is a <b>test</b>.)Displays literally "This is a <b> test </b>."Other variations like assingning test to a variable and then using variable.bold do the same thing.Is this not supported by ScriptUI, or is there a workaround that I haven't found?Thanks!

Hi,I’m having an issue with Illustrator patterns when exporting an InDesign file to PDF version 1.3.During export, the pattern from one artboard extends onto all the remaining artboards and continues seamlessly, instead of repeating independently on each artboard. For comparison, there are two files: “ark.pdf” and “ark-no_transparent.pdf”, where the latter exports correctly.The file Master.pdf is linked to ark.indd, from which ark.pdf is exported.The same setup applies to the files with the “-no_transparent” suffix.The file with patterns exports incorrectly when transparency is used.I’m attaching the files.

why is the font i added not showing?i have this many times.it's extremely frustrating.i tried closing indesign a few times.each time i open it up it doesn't allow the font to be used  

I noticed that InDesign has the option in my Preferences ► "GPU Performance" greyed out, so it cannot be selected. It also says "Compatible GPU and Monitor not detected". Underneath in the section "GPU Details", it recognises the RTX 3070 Ti correctly. Since Windows 11 now handles GPU Performance (not Nvidia), I did select "High Performance" for the correct indesign.exe file within the Windows 11 Graphics settings.   - I am using InDesign Version 21.0.2- I reset the InDesign preferences- GPU is NVIDIA GeForce RTX070 Ti with 8GB- Windows 11 Pro- Nvidia Studio Driver latest (updated today). In all other Adobe apps this is not a problem. It's only in InDesign (all versions). Any ideas?

For the past few months I’ve been experiencing extreme slowness when changing the settings of a paragraph. For example, when I click on the drop-down menu to choose the font size, the list of sizes opens after 2–3 seconds. After I click on a size, the drop-down menu takes the same amount of time to close. This slowness affects almost all paragraph options. I also tried disabling the “Preview” checkbox at the bottom left, but this does not solve the problem.Note: The issue does not depend on the file size (it also happens with virtually empty files with a single page).

I would like to know if the QR Codes generated by Adobe InDesign comply with ISO standards (e.g. ISO/IEC 18004)Thank you

Like the title says, I am looking for a GREP command that would allow me to find and replace bullet styles that come right before my body styles. Ideally I would be able to find all bullets that come right before body text and replace them with a style that has more spacing after it. This is so I can have a little extra space between bullets and Body – while keeping normal spacing between different tiers of bullets. (Using the "space between same style" creates awkward spacing between bullets of different tiers.) I hope this makes sense!  - and if this does not exist, it would be a great feature to add. That, or an option within paragraph styles that allows for the styles to behave differently when followed by another, specific, style. Thanks!

I get the following error trying to launch InDesign. I uninstall it completely and reinstall. Still the same error.Any suggestions on this...All my other Adobe apps works 100% 

Hi everybody, I have an script running in InDesign CC 2024 and I'm using idle functionalitiy to run some stuff in background. That workes fine when InDesign is the active application. But when I put another app in foreground and InDesign is not the active application the script stops working.Is there a awy to change that? The script should continue even if InDesign is in background or minimized. Thanks for any advice.Klaus

Bonjour,Depuis la mise à jour 2026 d'Indesign, je n'arrive plus à faire d'assemblage, j'ai toujours un message d'erreur,J'ai eu ce soucis, sur plusieurs fichiers.Je n'avais pas ce problème avant.Merci pour votre aide. 

Hi, when I merge an InDesign document to pdf, old data populates the merge fields in the newly created pdf. However, the correct .csv file has been selected and in Preview mode the correct data is showing. Can anyone assist?